When I was young, I didn’t understand the value of “art”, and I was so blunt and straightforward that I unknowingly committed a heinous crime. Although I escaped from the “Anti-Rightist” period by dodging and moving around, it was not easy to overcome the “Cultural Revolution“. Knowing that this and that faction is a trap, so take the idea when the “free faction”. Others in the battle, a few of us do not want to eat angry rice outsourcing workers “hobo”, they set up a dragon gate, in the wavering candlelight to drink tea tea, smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, from the brutal battle, and talk about the “Cultural Revolution” The “Revolution” has left us with no way to live. The “four greats” how many women, Peng Dehuai in the Korean battlefield did not protect the “prince”, so doomed to bad luck. And also to the future policy relaxed, we a few people to open a comb store to live on the …… million did not think that is these credible, marginal gossip, nonsense, but led to a disaster that I will never forget.
As the father of one of the members of the “Dragon Front” was a major general of the Kuomintang, this person was bucketed to the police station to report on his father’s situation, so the content of our gossip was also reported, and perhaps added vinegar. Within a few days, I was also enrolled in a study class at the police station, and two days later was tied up and sent to the “workers’ picket”, where I spent a whole year in isolation, punished for kneeling, standing, slapping, and spanking for no reason, almost as a compulsory course, doing heavy work such as making bricks, digging mud, and firing kilns, and paying for Food. A year later still back to the police station, every day by the police escort us these “cattle ghosts and snakes” in the river to engage in urban defense projects, food, failure to complete the task night and day to do. At the end of the project, I was assigned to the aluminum wire society as a temporary worker. Six months later, I was sent to the detention center, and every day I stood on the Jiefang truck to go to the major units to parade the fight, and when the train to and from Beijing passed Changzhou station, we stood on the criticism platform to hang a sign to show the public, and so on, “stinking and penetrating” for 15 days. In May 1972, I was convicted of the crime of counter-revolution and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, so I was sent to the 13th Labor Brigade of Jiangsu Province in Wuxi to be under the “dictatorship of the proletariat”. Shortly after I was assigned to work in the steel warehouse, one day a general meeting of the whole factory was held, at which the factory manager gave a “wonderful” report, saying: “Now, the revolutionary situation is very good, and according to the spirit of the documents of the Jiangsu Provincial Public Prosecution and Military Control Committee, the cause of labor reform in our country will certainly develop significantly. Our factory, after studying and deciding, and seeking the approval of the Provincial Labor Reform Bureau, decided to build an additional set of grinding machine workshop of more than 10,000 square meters. You people, the only way out for you is to recognize the situation and speed up the transformation ……”
After listening to the report, I learned a lot that the “labor reform business” was also in the plan of “great development”.
I was living in “accelerated reform” and the Time was passing faster. Until October 1976, I had been “reformed” for more than four years. Suddenly, the “Gang of Four” was crushed, and it was really a case of “seven days in a cave, a thousand years in the world. “. Some of the prisoners were “released” into the detention center just after liberation, “prison age” is very long, so the “Gang of Four”, “Gang of Five “very confused, they only know that there are “green and red gang”, “run single gang”. In order to cope with the cadres, in the speech to a “parrot”, saying something like “the Gang of Four plotted to kill Mao XX, the Gang of Four codified the party to seize power, provoking the masses to fight the masses” and so “absolutely correct” The lines. One time when it was my turn to speak, I actually cursed “Jiang Qing is a dog”, listening to the inmates in the same room giggled, I did not expect another “disaster from the mouth”. The same room has a “current counter-revolutionary prisoner” Mr. Xie Yang, who is nearing the end of his Life, was a high school teacher before his arrest, and his Family is a landlord. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
“Lu Zhichang, what do you think about the ‘Gang of Four’?”
“Report instructor, the ‘Gang of Four’ is a counter-revolutionary group and the enemy of the whole nation.”
“I ask you, what did you say about Mao XX in your speech at the group meeting?”
“Instructor, I didn’t say anything about Mao XX in my speech at the group meeting.”
“You said Jiang Qing is a dog, what people are dogs.”
“Report instructor, this is the oral colloquialism of the dialect of Changxi area, it is the resentment against Jiang Qing, meaning that Jiang Qing is the descendant of a dog.”
“Lu Zhichang, I tell you, the words spoken are objective, and you can’t get rid of them by relying on them.”
So, after the instructor sent me back to the prison, he immediately started a series of investigations to obtain evidence for the phrase “Jiang Qing is a dog’s descendant”, whispering to the cadres on duty in the prison, checking the records of speeches, and looking for prisoners in the prison who were close to the government “for rehabilitation”. More than one, for individual interviews to understand the situation, and made a statement. After more than three hours of tossing and turning, finally, at the group meeting, the instructor made a definitive ruling: “After careful investigation and evidence collection, the squadron department confirmed that Lu Zhichang did say ‘Jiang Qing is a dog’s day’ when he spoke, but did not mention the great leader Mao XX, Xie Yang made something out of nothing. Xie Yang fabricated facts, falsely accused the same prisoner, ordered to make a profound written examination. Meeting adjourned!”
The meeting was adjourned!” It was a storm, but there was no danger at all. Although the incident happened more than 30 years ago, now I think it is really ridiculous and terrible, I and Mr. Xie Yang belong to the “current counter-revolutionary criminals”, two bitter gourds growing on the same root, usually no grudge, but at the first opportunity will cast this poison arrow to another bitter gourd, I do not know what Mr. Xie thinks? Is it true that wherever there is life, there is struggle? Is it really so cruel for human beings, who are the “spirits of all things”? An old man like me still has to keep learning hard – the sea of learning is endless, it is not an empty word!
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